Should
you Create Your Own Diet?
Creating your
own diet sounds like a great idea but should be
weighed against other options. Here’s what you’ll
need to do to make your own diet and what's involved
in
creating a safe, effective diet plan that gives you
results…
Will you
save money if you create my own diet?
After you’ve figured out your calorie needs,
your deficit calories for weight loss, figured out
how you’re going to meet those diet goals with the
enough foods choices (we offer virtually unlimited
choices with
Plan-A-Meal), created a menu plan that works
with your lifestyle, looked up nutritional values &
calories for each new food you select, (and searched
the web OR read books on how to balance your diet
nutritionally & learned how to stay motivated) and
learned how to design it to preserve muscle not fat
(so that you look great at your new weight)…..you’ll
have saved little to possibly no money at all.
How could this be? Our diet & nutrition experts have spent the last
10 years creating
PersonalDiets™
Create your own diet programming. The diet we
have created is proven to be effective,
convenient and easy to use, and offer you extreme
flexibility. As a result
you can now create your own custom diets each day just
like a nutritionist for less than it costs have a
soda, popcorn and go to the theater.
How to Join?
If
you need a diet & want to save money, want to create
yourself a more natural diet that's well suited to
your personal needs (that's proven to work),
consider
PersonalDiets™.
Trial
PersonalDiets Customized Diet for 3 days. If you
find you don't
like it simply cancel it within 72 hour period and
we'll refund you in full - no questions asked.
Start creating your own customized diets now.
Additional
items to consider if you're still considering
creating your own diet...
Won’t
your own diet be just as effective?
Whether
you choose the latest fad diet, free web diet or
decide to just cut down on calories on your own, in
most cases you will overshoot your true weight loss
needs and tend to lose weight quickly but not
effectively – losing more water and lean muscle so
that more fat stays on your body. So you will be a
smaller, fatter person instead of improving your
body composition. This is not effective weight loss!
Is it safe to create your own diet?
To create
a safe weight loss diet, you’ll need to balance good
nutrition while restricting calories. Most fad diets
that promise quick weight loss are not balanced and
a self-created diet can have the same problems.
Restricting too many foods, reducing variety and not
knowing how to get the right balance of nutrition to
keep the brain, organs, and muscles functioning
while the body is stressed with lower calories can
be a safety issue, even with healthy people. Unless
you are trained in nutrition, if your goal is to
look better, to feel better, or to get into better
shape it’s a good idea to get a professionally
developed plan that gives you the right balance of
foods. If you choose a plan that allows you to
create your own diet within the framework of a
healthy plan set up for your individual needs,
you’ll get to create your own diet with the
assurance of a safe, balanced weight loss plan.
We’ve spent 10 years developing our diet program
and continue to improve our plan making it easier to
use and adding more options to customize so that our
clients can create their own diet safely and get the
results they want!
I Want To Create My
Own Diet - Can A Personal Dietitian Help?
Whether you design your own diet or use
PersonalDiets™
create your own diet
program to help you create your diet plan, here’s
what goes into creating a weight loss diet that
meets the needs for safety and proven results that
last:
1.
Nutritional Balance: Is this really that important?
Have you heard of people’s skin turning orange
because they followed a weight loss diet based on
eating mostly carrots? How about people who lose
their hair because their diet lacked vitamins and
minerals? Good nutrition is important for everyone
but even more critical when you follow a weight loss
diet because you are limiting calories – basically
starving your body to burn fat so it’s very
important to do it right! This means figuring out
the right amount of calories, then figuring the
right amount of fat, protein, and carbohydrate and
then building a diet of foods that make up that
composition.
Do you know which foods have the
most protein without a lot of animal fat? Do you
know how to get the most vitamins and minerals in
the fewest calories? How many snacks should you
include for your exercise and activity level? These
are some basic questions that need to be considered
when creating a good weight loss diet.
2. Blood sugar needs & considerations.
I'm not diabetic - why should I have to balance my
diet sugars?
Even those with diabetes need a
certain amount of carbohydrates balanced throughout
the day to fuel muscle and other body tissues. If
you don’t have diabetes (or insulin resistance), you
still need to eat a mix of protein, fat and
carbohydrate at meals and snacks so that your
metabolism stays high and you don’t go into an
energy slump. The right balance of carbohydrate
throughout the day can help keep you from craving
junk and overeating. (leading to weight gain!)
3. Calorie determination
I've seen lots of
websites that provide ways for me to determine my
calories so what advantages are there for a
dietitian to determine my calories?
There are
specific formulas for figuring out a person’s
calorie needs that work very well. But not everyone
wants nor should they lose weight at the same rate.
So instead of following one calorie level for all
people or using the same rate of weight loss for
everyone, it’s better to get a diet that is based
your specific calorie needs and rate of weight loss.
(which should be no more than 2 pounds a week for
most people to preserve lean tissue and create more
fat loss).
4.
Diet Flexibility
Do I really need to
have as much choice as
PersonalDiets™
offers? What if I'm not a picky eater or I eat the
same things all of the time?
Most people have
their favorite meals and foods that they repeat
often. We’ve created a plan that starts with our
recommendation of a variety of foods to use as a
guide but it allows you to change your food choices,
repeat favorite foods, have leftovers, dine out,
etc. That way you get our healthy recommended diet
plan with the right balance of nutrition with the
flexibility of changing foods and creating your own
menus whenever you want.
5.
Practicality/Lifestyle Considerations. How
practical does a diet have to be?
We think it’s
very important to fit the diet to the person’s
lifestyle. If you don’t cook, a recipe diet won’t
work for you. If you don’t like eating out of a box,
a convenience/packaged food diet is not the answer.
We’ve created a variety of eating styles so that
it’s easier to lose weight without changing your
lifestyle.
6. Customized Grocery
List.
I appreciate that automating my grocery shopping list is convenient but I can do
this by hand each week.
Have you ever used a grocery list and returned home only to find that you missed
getting a crucial item for your menu plan? An automated grocery list selects all
of the foods needed for the plan you create saving you time, money and effort
and is included as an option at no extra cost in your personal diet plan because
we know that planning helps you stick to your goals.
7.
Health Issues.
I have always followed my own diet rules when it comes to my health and reduce
fats and try to eat healthy.
Many people think they know exactly what they should be eating – the problem is
that they just don’t do it. A structured plan that meets heart healthy
guidelines ensures that your goal of eating right is met without a lot of label
reading, calculating and worrying about whether you’re getting a healthy balance
of good foods.
8. Safety.
To develop a safe diet it should result in weight loss of no more than 1- 2
pounds a week and really, some people can't even lose this quickly. A weight
loss diet needs to be high in nutrition to make up for the reduction in calories
needed to burn fat. And, you’ll need enough calories so that you can fuel your
body and feel good and energetic while you lose weight. Plus, poor nutrition
results in bad skin, bad breath, low energy, dull hair, poor digestion and can
lead to more dangerous health effects. Don’t trade long term success for fast
results no matter what diet you follow.
9. Ease of Use/ Meal Planning - For you diet plan to work, you should
plan it so you can follow and stick to it daily. We boast that you can follow
our diet anytime - any place but to be able to create a diet that's that easy
you need to consider a lot of things besides balancing breakfast, lunch, dinner
and your snacks. What about dining out, eating at school, dorms, your workplace,
events? If your life is busy you'll also need to plan all the convenient and/or
fast foods, etc that you eat. A flexible diet lets you plan ahead so that even
unexpected events are covered.
10. Tracking- Research has shown that tracking your diet is almost as
important as the diet itself. Few of us track routinely because of the extra
steps involved and many who have attempted tracking find that it takes too much
time . That's why we created an easy, practical to use on & offline tool we call
the Right-on-Tracker – because tracking your progress is one of the best habits
you can do to lose weight and stay on track with your goals
(*Additional fees apply to our interactive tracking however we do offer a good
simple offline tool for non custom diet users).
11. Effective – Given enough time and effort, you may be able to develop
some of your own tools and resources. But with our established, proven program
you will have easy access to so many tools and resources such as tracking,
dietitian email & phone support, as well as DietBattles both peer and
professional support that has led our clients to successful weight loss
outcomes.
12. Would you be better able to stick to a diet that you create yourself?
Compared to commercial weight loss programs, you may be better off designing
your own diet because most diets are just trying to sell you their foods instead
of helping you find a diet that you can actually follow as a new healthy eating
style so that you keep your weight off.
PersonalDiets™
has carefully designed a program that helps you create a personal plan that
works for you but gives you the structure, tools and resources that have been
proven to help people change their lifestyle and reach their weight goals. So
now you can create a personal plan but you have to do this all by yourself – now
you can get expert help that will guide you to healthy eating and good habits.
How does
PersonalDiets™
help you diet effectively?
So that you don't give up 2-3 weeks after you start your diet
(see Diet Sample) we give you effective tools
that helps you stay on track. We offer many avenues of support – easy to use
tools, easy access to people who can support you when you need it and both
offline and online tools that are easy to access and print out, with 10 years of
online experience we’ve found what works!
